Analytics Engineer

Nansen is a leading blockchain analytics platform that empowers investors and professionals with real-time, actionable insights derived from on-chain data.

About the role

We're looking for a talented and committed Analytics Engineer to join Nansen's BI team, reporting directly to our Head of Business Intelligence. You'll be responsible for building and maintaining the data infrastructure that powers decision-making across Nansen, with a focus on blockchain data, trading, and staking analytics.

Our BI team works at the intersection of data, engineering, and product teams, building downstream data models and making our internal data a genuine competitive advantage.

Our technology stack includes: Google Cloud Platform, dbt, BigQuery, Clickhouse, Metabase, and Fivetran.

Your responsibilities

• Develop and own core data models that enable faster, better decisions across the organisation
• Design, develop, and support data pipelines, warehouses, and reporting systems to solve business operations, user, and product problems
• Build internal tools leveraging AI to 10x team productivity and enable self-serve analytics
• Work closely with analysts and finance to create, test, and maintain data models for our analytics, trading, and staking products
• Transform and model blockchain data (on-chain transactions, DeFi protocols, trading activity) into actionable datasets
• Take initiative and ownership of solutions to data quality and workflow challenges
• Drive scalable approaches to data governance and observability
• Leverage AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor) throughout the development lifecycle - from SQL generation to pipeline development to documentation

Your experience

• Experience leading data warehousing and modeling projects, ideally in a fast-growth environment
• Exceptional SQL and data modeling skills
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Hands-on experience with dbt for data transformation and modeling
• First-hand experience building tools or improving processes with AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, etc.
• Deep understanding of blockchain data, on-chain analytics, and crypto markets (or strong willingness to learn)
• Nice to haves: Experience with Fivetran or similar ETL tools, data observability tooling

Who you are

• AI-native: You treat AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor as coworkers, seamlessly integrating them into your workflow for 10x productivity across SQL, pipelines, tooling, and documentation
• A highly effective and personable collaborator who thrives in small, elite teams
• Self-starter able to operate independently with high autonomy while maintaining focus on delivery and excellence
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to adapt to changing priorities
• Empathetic, kind, curious, and sincere, with strong crypto fluency

What we offer

• Join a lean, focused organisation with small elite teams driving impact
• Web3 industry leader in crypto analytics
• Globally competitive compensation, equity, and benefits including Nansen Hubs
• Transparency, courage, ownership, speed, simplicity & curiosity - our core values that enable staff to excel
• Remote-first company with a global hiring strategy
• Backed by world-class investors including a16z, Accel, GIC, Tiger